Runner Stops for a Smoke, Gets Mugged

Incontrovertible evidence that running and smoking don't mix.

Many people trying to quit smoking find success by taking up running. This approach was used by no less than marathon legend Bill Rodgers in the early 1970s.

A Kentucky man is probably now wishing his running had helped him kick the habit.

As the Bowling Green Daily News reports, the man was out for a run on Monday night when, sure, why not, he decided to stop for a cigarette. Two men reportedly approached him and asked for cigarettes. Then, the man says, one of them started grabbing at his clothes, and got $7 from the smoking runner's wallet as well as the rest of his cigarettes.

This was enough to spur the runner back into action; he ran home and called the police to report the incident.

"The case remains open," the Bowling Green Daily News reports, as does our curiosity about someone who brings cigarettes with him on a run.